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Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions by lifeformed on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:40AM (#20224300)
The word is "exploitive". Desperate people will do things because they have to. If I pay a homeless person $20 to humiliate himself, is that a fair transaction, or an exploitation of the asymmetry between our conditions?
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Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions by Spooky23 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:31PM (#20229313)
To the chubby engineer type in 2019, yes. Make the drunk dwarf dance, it’s a free market.

When recession strikes and the gravy train ends, the same folks will be wearing Che Guevara T-shirts crying about unfairness.

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Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions by ekianjo on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @08:08PM (#20228602)
There is no obligation for anyone to do anything. Do you assume that there is no free will and we are all like robots driven by short term profits?
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Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions by pizza234 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:01AM (#20231958)
That doesn't answer the parent's question.

If you call 20$, for a person who owes nothing and is probably starving, a "short term profit", you've very likely never experienced how is it to live in poor conditions.

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